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Our culture values open collaboration, ownership, and excellence.\nAbout the Role\nWe're hiring a Principal Software Engineer to lead the technical development of our Fleet Manager platform - the workflow automation system that provisions, tests, and remediates GPU nodes and network switches at scale.\nAs technical lead, you'll own the architecture and delivery of foundational Python-based automation systems that manage the entire lifecycle of our compute infrastructure: device enrolment, burn-in testing, network configuration, GPU health monitoring, and self-healing capabilities. You'll mentor a team of senior engineers, set technical direction, and drive engineering excellence while remaining hands-on with critical systems.\nWhat you'll do\nLead technical architecture and roadmap for Fleet Manager's workflow automation systems\nOwn end-to-end delivery of device provisioning, validation, testing, and remediation workflows at scale\nDesign and build workflow orchestration systems for GPU node and network switch lifecycle management\nEstablish engineering standards for reliability, observability, and operational excellence across all Fleet Manager services\nMentor and raise the bar for a team of senior engineers through design reviews, technical leadership, and hands-on collaboration\nDrive architecture decisions balancing automation complexity, reliability, and maintainability\nIntegrate with infrastructure tooling: DCIMs, NetBox, OpenStack, bare metal APIs (MAAS, Ironic, IPMI)\nPartner with Infrastructure, Platform, and SRE teams to translate operational needs into robust, scalable automation\nBuild production-grade Python systems for hardware lifecycle automation, leveraging AI tools to accelerate delivery\nAbout You\nYou have 12-15+ years software engineering experience building and operating production systems, with proven technical leadership in infrastructure automation or workflow tooling\nStrong Python engineering fundamentals with experience leading complex, multi-service distributed systems\nYou are driven by building distributed systems at scale, infrastructure reliability, scalability, security, and continuous improvement\nTechnical expertise: quickly understanding systems design tradeoffs, keeping track of rapidly evolving software systems\nTrack record of owning technical roadmaps and delivering large-scale automation systems from ambiguous requirements to production\nYou use AI tools like Claude or Cursor as a core part of your development workflow - as a fundamental multiplier of what you can build\nDeep understanding of operational excellence: SLOs, monitoring, alerting, incident response, and production reliability\nStrong mentorship skills with ability to develop high-performing engineering teams\nExcellent communication skills to build consensus with stakeholders, both internally and externally\nStrong candidates will have\nExperience with workflow orchestration tools like Temporal, Airflow, Prefect, or similar\nHands-on experience with infrastructure tooling: DCIMs, NetBox, OpenStack, or ERP systems\nBare metal provisioning and automation: MAAS, Ironic, IPMI, PXE boot, or network automation\nExperience building hardware lifecycle automation: provisioning, validation, testing, or remediation workflows\nGPU infrastructure experience: health monitoring, burn-in testing, or cluster management\nHPC and networking: datacenter topology, high-performance interconnects (InfiniBand, RoCE)\nDeep knowledge of Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Pulumi), AWS, and GCP\nTrack record of 1+ years leading large-scale, complex projects or technical teams\nOpen-source contributions in infrastructure automation or cloud-native tooling\nThe range below reflects the base salary for the position. 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